37:3

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him.

37:28

So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

37:36

Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard.

39:4

Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.

39:11

One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside.

39:12

She caught him by his cloak and said, "Come to bed with me!" But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.

39:16

She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home.

39:17

Then she told him this story: "That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me.

39:18

But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house."

39:19

When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is how your slave treated me," he burned with anger.

39:20

Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison,

41:39

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.

41:40

You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you."

41:41

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt ."

41:42

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph's finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.

8:28

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

1:17

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

12:2

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.